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“Look Ma, No Hook”: A C-130 Hercules Really Landed on a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier

In 1963, a U.S. Navy KC-130F Hercules turned “impossible” into routine by operating from the deck of the supercarrier USS ...
The National Interest

USS Forrestal: How A Navy Aircraft Carrier Was Nearly Destroyed by Fire

The USS Forrestal Fire, Explained: Aircraft carriers can be dangerous places to work. These ships are literally floating airports, and if proper safety measures aren’t carried out, things can turn ...
Washington Examiner

Surviving the USS Forrestal fire

Sometimes the stories I encounter in this job leave me stunned. To wit, I recently spoke with Aviation Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Anthony O’Malley, who served aboard the USS Forrestal during a ...
Popular Mechanics

Remembering That Time a Deadly Fire Almost Sunk the World’s First ‘Supercarrier’

USS Forrestal was the first “supercarrier,” larger and far more powerful than previous generations of aircraft carriers. Military aviation underwent a rapid change after World War II, as the jet ...
WRAL

Remembering the USS Forrestal deadly fire 50 years later

It has been 50 years since a deadly fire on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. On July 29, 1967, the Forrestal was off the coast of Vietnam for combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin ...
The National Interest

USS Forrestal: The Navy’s First ‘Super’ Aircraft Carrier was a Game Changer

As the United States prepares to deliver its second one-hundred-thousand-ton Gerald Ford-class supercarrier later in 2019, it’s easy to forget that until the mid-1950s the Navy’s carriers displaced ...
10 News

A half-century later, USS Forrestal fallen to be remembered

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- The U-S-S Forrestal fire, to this day, remains the Navy's biggest disaster in a combat zone since World War II. On the 50th anniversary of that fateful day, former shipmates ...